Have you ever been curious how the number 7 keeps popping up in the Bible?

Over 700 times, the number 7 is prominently woven into many Bible passages … nobody can miss it! But it’s not there as some mystical formula or code.  It’s much more powerful – a covenant signature. From the seven-word opening of Genesis to the final vision of Revelation, every appearance of 7 expresses the same unmistakable message – God keeps His word!

“The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.” Psalm 12.6 (NKJV)

This passage from Psalm 12 is packed with more personally relevant meaning than I ever imagined.

Did you happen to notice that the first sentence of the Bible is seven words long?

In Hebrew, the first 3 words are “Bereshit bara Elohim” … meaning “In the beginning God created.”

The last 3 words in Hebrew represent “the heavens and the earth.”

But there are 7 Hebrew words here. The middle word, the fourth one, is spelled with just two Hebrew letters, aleph and tav, the first and last …